--------------------- Scene 1 - North Sea Coast The TARDIS comes zooming down from the sky to land with a plop in the middle of the ocean. Remaining just above the waves, the TARDIS crew throw out a rubber dinghy and start paddling towards the shore. After a while the rubber dinghy reaches the beach - the Doctor proceeds to help Victoria out. DOCTOR: There Victoria, up you get. JAMIE: Trust you to bring us right down in the middle of the sea. DOCTOR: The TARDIS is perfectly capable of floating you know. VICTORIA: Looking around Where are we exactly? DOCTOR: Oh England undoubtedly. JAMIE: Aye, you can tell by the weather. DOCTOR: And by the cliffs. VICTORIA: We always seem to land on this planet. JAMIE: Aye, it s always England. You'd think for all the hammering the TARDIS has got, you've gone an' spiked it The Doctor bends down to inspect the foam that seem to be covering this stretch of the coast JAMIE: Hey what are you doing. Hey what's all this stuff Doctor? VICTORIA: Foam you silly. You often see the stuff along the sea shore. JAMIE: But not big lumps like this aye Doctor? DOCTOR: No, not usually. Jamie. Hey Jamie, feel that. The Doctor splatters a handful of foam into Jamie's face. The three are subsequently consumed in a foam fight. Their playful fight leads them towards to a pipe near the base of a cliff. JAMIE: Hey, look at that. May be that's where the foam's coming from. DOCTOR: Oh I hardly think so, Jamie. Let s go and see. Unbeknownst to the time travelers their movements are being observed by a man sheltering behind an outcrop of rocks. He has them through the sites of his tranquilizer rifle. ********** Scene 2 - Pipe Line Section JAMIE: What is it? DOCTOR: Just what it says, Jamie. Euro Sea Gas. JAMIE: Gas from the sea? Oh, who are you trying to kid? VICTORIA: And it has nothing to do with the foam then. DOCTOR: No. No, I shouldn't think so. The DOCTOR notices a black metallic box sitting on the pipe and tries to pry it open with his hands with little success. JAMIE: Would it not budge? DOCTOR: No, can't budge it, I'm afraid Jamie. Ah well, have to use this. From his pockets the DOCTOR produces a tubular device. DOCTOR: It's a Sonic Screwdriver. Never fails. The Doctor applies it to the screws on the top of the box and they begin to unscrew themselves - a soft humming sound is coming from the sonic screwdriver. DOCTOR: There we are. Neat isn t it? All done by sound waves. Now what have we got here. The Doctor peers into the newly opened black box DOCTOR: Oh yes. There is a faint noise coming from the pipe. JAMIE: What is it? What's that noise? DOCTOR: I don't know Jamie. The DOCTOR produces a stethoscope from his pockets and applies it to the pipe. DOCTOR: There's a heart beating.... VICTORIA: I can hear it too. DOCTOR: Yes. Probably throbbing from a pump, you know. VICTORIA: Doctor please hurry up. I don't like this place. It's so quiet. I feel as if we're being watched. DOCTOR: Alright Victoria. The man that has been monitoring them, raises his rifle and takes aim. Jamie is shot and collapses. DOCTOR: Jamie!!! The Doctor soon joins him as he is subsequently shot down. VICTORIA: Doctor!!! DOCTOR!!! Another quick shot and Victoria collapses on her friends. ********** Scene 3 - Control Room The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria lie on the floor of the Control room. Guards with rifles stand over them. Slowly the effects of the tranquilizer darts begin to wear off, and the trio regain consciousness. DOCTOR: Victoria.......Jamie you there? VICTORIA: I can't move......my legs. JAMIE: What happened?? What do you want? DOCTOR: Would someone kindly tell us where we are?.............Why don't you answer? JAMIE: Come on where are we? VICTORIA: What have they done? Can't move..... DOCTOR: I think we've......we've been tranquilized Victoria. Tranquilized. JAMIE: Eh? Who do they think they are? Robson - the Chief of the Euro Sea Complex - and his second in command - Harris - move over to the prostrate trio on hearing their raucous. ROBSON: We should be the ones asking the questions. I expect quite a lot of answers. JAMIE: What is this place? ROBSON: You mean you don't know? JAMIE: If only I could just get up.... ROBSON: I wouldn t try if I were you. DOCTOR: You know in this condition it's just a little difficult to communicate. HARRIS: Shall we give them some U4 sir? DOCTOR: Eh? ROBSON: Yes. Do that Mr. Harris. Harris, with canisters of U4, begins administering it to the trio despite their protests. VICTORIA: Oh no. DOCTOR: I think it's alright Victoria. VICTORIA: No..... DOCTOR: I think it's an antidote. There's nothing we can do about it you know... Harris stands back as the U4 begins to take effect on the three strangers. DOCTOR: Oh yes. That's better.... Thank you. Thank you very much. ROBSON: You were on the beach, by the pipe line, in a restricted area. Now why? VICTORIA: We were lost that's all. ROBSON: You were tampering with the emergency release valve remote control. You're a saboteur. VICTORIA: He's not. He's a doctor. DOCTOR: I can assure you. I was only being curious. HARRIS: I don't really think how they could have anything..... ROBSON: When I want your opinion Harris, I'll ask for it. In the mean time, lock them up in one of the cabins. I'll interrogate them later. To the Technicians at their posts And you lot get back to work. Robson turns and walks off back to his duties. JAMIE: Is he always as charming as that? HARRIS: We're in something of an emergency at the moment. You see we've lost contact with one of our rigs at sea. DOCTOR: Communications have broken down? HARRIS: No that's what's so curious about it. As far as we can tell our video link is functioning normally. The crew just aren't answering. VICTORIA: You can't blame us for that surely. HARRIS: There's also been a drop in pressure in the feed line from the rigs. You were seen tampering with the release valve on the pipe line. DOCTOR: I told you I was merely being curious. HARRIS: Were you? JAMIE: Are you calling us liars? HARRIS: No. But you must admit your sudden appearance here inside our restricted area is suspicious. VICTORIA: That's no reason to shoot us down like animals. HARRIS: Maybe not but we were under security alert and Mr Robson....well is under considerable pressure himself. I'm sorry but I shall have to do what he says and lock you up. DOCTOR: Oh dear. HARRIS: Would you....er..follow me? JAMIE: Why do we always.... His voice drifts off as the trio follow Harris and a guard out of the control area ********** Scene 4 - Guard Room - Entrance to Control compound A guard stands watch as a woman - Mrs Maggie Harris - approaches the barriers. GUARD: May I see your pass please madam? MAGGIE: Pass? GUARD: I have instructions that no one is to leave or enter the compound without a written pass from chief Robson. Not until after the emergency. MAGGIE: But you know who I am. My husband is second in command to Chief Robson. GUARD: Yes Mrs Harris, I ... MAGGIE: Then let me pass....please. GUARD: Sorry madam. I think you should return to the residential block. ********** Scene 5 - Crew Cabin. The Doctor's group are led in, whilst the guard stands watch in the door way. HARRIS: I'm sorry but there is nothing I can do to help you until you tell me what you were doing with that release valve on the pipe line. DOCTOR: It wasn't the valve I was interested in. HARRIS: Oh? DOCTOR: I heard a movement coming from inside the pipe. HARRIS: Movement? DOCTOR: Yes. HARRIS: Noticing the guard Oh it's alright you can go. DOCTOR: Yes. Movement. Don't ask me what it was. HARRIS: I'm not sure what you re trying to suggest, but I can assure you marine life couldn t possibly get inside the pipe line tube. It would never get pass the drill pumps. JAMIE: Aye, that's it. May be there was something inside that tube because I heard it too. VICTORIA: And so did I. DOCTOR: Well if the pressure is down in the pipes, perhaps that's the reason why - marine life has got into the pipe. HARRIS: But that's impossible. We've spent years of time, money and research into perfecting our emergency system. DOCTOR: Well, perhaps there's a fracture in the pipes - a break and something has got in that way? HARRIS: Oh I doubt it. DOCTOR: Mr Harris. I don't wish to appear interfering but don't you think it'd be a good idea to turn off the gas - at least until you ve had a chance to check. HARRIS: Chief Robson would never agree to that. DOCTOR: Why not? HARRIS: Well he doesn't believe in working to the book. He prides himself that the flow has never been shut off ever since he took charge. DOCTOR: Well he sounds like a very silly man. HARRIS: Hmmm. But he appears to be right about one thing. You seem to know quite a lot about our business. ********** Scene 6 - Control Room Robson and the communications officer - Price - are clustered near the communications cone. PRICE: Ah, Chief. We've gained contact with Rig D. Come in Rig D. Come in please. Rig D. Can you hear me please? The face of Carney appears on the monitor. CARNEY: Whispering Yes. Rig D to HQ. I can hear you. ROBSON: CARNEY? What the dickens is going on out there? CARNEY: Whispering Everything is quite alright, Mr Robson. ROBSON: What? CARNEY: Whispering We have the situation under control. ROBSON: Would you speak up man. I can't hear a word you're saying. CARNEY: Whispering Don't worry.... ROBSON: Price, are we losing volume? PRICE: No, sir. I don't understand. Could you speak up a little louder Mr Carney? CARNEY: Whispering Everything is under control. ROBSON: Carney? What happened to the emergency crew we sent you? Have they arrived yet? CARNEY: Yes.....Yes... But they must stay here for the time being. ROBSON: What? CARNEY: They had a slight accident. Two men out of action. ROBSON: Now listen Carney. You get that rig fixed A1 and quick. CARNEY: But it will take some time. ROBSON: What? What did you say? What's wrong with this thing. PRICE: I don't know, sir. It must be their end. He seems to be whispering. CARNEY: Everything is under control. ROBSON: Carney, speak up man. CARNEY: Everything is under control. ROBSON: Carney... The signal is lost in static. PRICE: I think we've lost contact again sir. ROBSON: Fix it man. Robson moves away from the Communications cone and heads towards Harris who has just returned from locking the strangers in the cabin. ROBSON: Price is getting too old for his job. HARRIS: Mr. Robson, I think we should turn off the gas flow coming from the rig. Make a check. ROBSON: You think what Mr Harris? HARRIS: That Doctor chap. The stranger. He said he heard a movement coming from inside the pipe line on the beach. ROBSON: Oh did he now. Did he say what he thought it was? Mice? The Chief Engineer walks up to the pair. ROBSON: Chief? CHIEF: She's down at propeller 3. Pressure's on just 157. ROBSON: Are you sure? CHIEF: Yes. Sure. HARRIS: That means the gas flow pressure is down 3% every...... ROBSON: Twenty minutes. HARRIS: Doesn't that prove that something must be blocking the pipe line? ROBSON: It proves nothing of the sort. It's probably a faulty gauge that's all. Check it. HARRIS: Look at least give it the benefit of the doubt. ROBSON: When you want to find out about pipe lines and rigs Mr Harris, the thing to do is to go out and see and work on them. HARRIS: Look I'm merely saying that if something had got into the tube..... ROBSON: You let me worry about that. HARRIS: But Mr Robson, please listen. This ties up with what I ve been trying to tell you. For three weeks now, there s been a regular and increasing build up of falls in pressure.....Look I think you should at least look at my calculations. The time ratio of the increases and falls corresponds to form a definite progressive pattern. I ll get them. ROBSON: What are you trying to prove Harris? That I don't know my job? HARRIS: No. Just that I know mine. It's your decision whether you take notice of my work but I must put it on record that I have offered the information. Whilst the two are arguing a hand in a white glove picks a file off a desk. ROBSON: Don't threaten me boy. I've eaten up sods like you for breakfast. You think you can baffle me with your little bits of paper don't you? Alright you go ahead and get them. I'll show you where you ve gone wrong. Harris moves off to his desk as Robson turns his attention to the Chief Engineer. ROBSON: Did you make a thorough check? CHIEF: Yes I checked it. Seems to be working properly. Harris returns from a fruitless search for the file in question. HARRIS: It's gone. CHIEF: Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her. HARRIS: It's gone. The file's gone. ROBSON: Well well well. Has it now? HARRIS: I'm sure I put it in here this morning......er I must have left the file on my desk at home. I'll go home and get.... ROBSON: You won't. You'll stay here. I'm not doing your job as well as my own. HARRIS: What's the matter sir? Are you scared that I might prove you wrong? ROBSON: No. You go ahead. But you'd better have something more than a high blown theory because if you haven't I'm going to take up and chop you up into little pieces and throw you back to your crummy little university. Alright? ********** Scene 7 - Crew Cabin Jamie is perched on the Doctor's shoulders trying to prise open the grill above the door. JAMIE: I've got it. DOCTOR: Put that down Victoria. Can you see anyone? JAMIE: All clear. DOCTOR: You think you can make it? JAMIE: Of course I can make it. Hold on. Victoria is rummaging in her hair for a hair pin. VICTORIA: Don't bother, Jamie. You can do it with this. JAMIE: Pick a lock with that hair pin? Don t be daft. Jamie manages to pull free the grill which clatters on the ground outside. VICTORIA: Clumsy. ********** Scene 8 - Corridor Harris catches up to his wife on her way to the control area. HARRIS: Maggie. Where have you been? I've been trying to contact you. MAGGIE: I was on my way to the village but Robson's clamped down on security. I was just coming to find you for a pass. HARRIS: Yes. There's been a bit of a flap on. MAGGIE: Well can I have a pass? HARRIS: No. Not at the moment. Look. Could you do something for me? MAGGIE: Yes what is it? HARRIS: There's a file - it's probably in the middle draw of my desk in the study. Could you get it and bring it to me at the control room? MAGGIE: Alright darling. But what's the panic? HARRIS: I'll explain later. Go along. MAGGIE: Alright darling. Maggie moves off back to the residential block whilst Harris makes his way back to the control room. ********** Scene 9 - Crew Cabin Jamie is still perched on the Doctor's shoulders trying to squeeze through the open grill above the door. Victoria is using her hair pin on the lock. VICTORIA: Oh he's stuck. DOCTOR: No he's not. Are you ready Jamie. Right. Jamie falls through on the other side of the door, just as Victoria succeeds in picking the lock and steps into the corridor. Jamie picks himself up and dusts himself off. VICTORIA: Told you not to bother. DOCTOR: Sorry, about that Jamie. ********** Scene 10 - Harris' Apartment Maggie finds her husband's file on his desk. She picks it up. MAGGIE: Ow......Seaweed? Maggie picks it out and hastily throws the piece of sea weed out. She rubs her stung hand and moves out to the lounge area. The sea weed bubbles and seethes as foam begins to develop around it. ********** Scene 11 - Control Room van Lutyens - the Dutch Engineer - enters the control room and makes his way towards Robson. VAN LUTYENS: Mr. Robson. Could I speak with you please? ROBSON: van Lutyens. I thought you were at the Control Rig. VAN LUTYENS: I just got back on the supply boat. ROBSON: Something wrong? VAN LUTYENS: I'm not quite sure. The men out there seem very restless. ROBSON: Restless? What are you talking about? VAN LUTYENS: You lost contact with Rig D didn't you? ROBSON: Yes it was only a temporary fault. We regained contact within the hour. VAN LUTYENS: Then why didn't you tell us that? Unusual incidents like that only cause tension on the rigs. ROBSON: Don't tell me what happened out on the rigs. I spent 4 years on one of those things without a break. VAN LUTYENS: Then you should know better than anyone how important it is to keep up the morale of the crew. ROBSON: What do you want me to do? Wipe their noses for them? Mind your own business van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: Mr Robson. I think you're forgetting we also have an interest in Euro Sea Gas. ROBSON: We? VAN LUTYENS: I'm here for the Dutch Government not for myself. ROBSON: You're here to offer me your expert advice not spread alarm amongst my crews. VAN LUTYENS: How dare you say that to me? ROBSON: I didn't ask you to come here. It was Megan Jones and those fools on the board. I said it wouldn't work and it never has. VAN LUTYENS: Only because you're too proud to accept advice. ROBSON: Let's get one thing straight, my friend, when I need your advice I'll ask for it. van Lutyens mutters his reply in Dutch and storms out. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria enter the control room but remain in a small side room overlooking the control area. Robson moves over to the communications cone where Price is at work contacting Chief Baxter at the Control Rig. BAXTER: Control. Chief Baxter at Control Rig. Is Robson there? PRICE: Yes sir. Mr. Robson sir. Chief Baxter from Control Rig sir. ROBSON: Right. Yes Baxter, what is it? BAXTER: van Lutyens arrive there yet sir? ROBSON: Yes. Why? BAXTER: Did he tell you how the men feel sir? ROBSON: Now listen Baxter. I'm in charge of this outfit. Not van Lutyens. You take orders from me not him. BAXTER: Yes sir. But there's something else. ROBSON: What else? BAXTER: Something seems to have got inside the pipe lines. ROBSON: Inside the pipe lines? BAXTER: We've all heard it sir. ROBSON: Heard what? BAXTER: This sound. At first I thought it was something to do with the pumps but it isn't. Most peculiar sound. A sort of regular thumping, pulsating..... like a heart beat. In the side room, the Doctor overhears the description.... DOCTOR: That's the noise I heard on the beach. VICTORIA: What is it Doctor? DOCTOR: I don t know but we're going to find out. Come on, Jamie. Oh...ah Victoria. No. Not you. VICTORIA: Why not? DOCTOR: I think it'd be better if you....er....stayed back in the bunk room......hmmm?......please. VICTORIA: Alright. The Doctor and Jamie move off down the corridor to investigate the pipe line. Victoria watches them move out of sight and moves off in the opposite direction having no intention of returning to the cabin and being left out of the action. ********** Scene 12 - Harris' Apartment Maggie, all of a sudden feeling a bit queasy, moves over to the communications unit and calls up the control room. Price's face appears on the monitor. PRICE: Control. MAGGIE: Mrs Harris here. Married Block 420. Could I speak to my husband please? ********** Scene 12 - Control Room ROBSON: Have you recallibrated it? VAN LUTYENS: I've just done Phase two. ROBSON: Start on Phase three. HARRIS: Mr Robson. ROBSON: Yes Harris. Where are your figures? HARRIS: Oh I haven't got them, sir. I sent my wife for them, but she's not well. I wondered if I could go and .... ROBSON: I would not. Tell her to call a doctor not pester you. HARRIS: But Dr. Patterson is still out at Rig D sir. ROBSON: Tell her to get one in from the outside. HARRIS: But you've still go the compound on full emergency alert. Remember? ROBSON: Alright. But make it quick. ********** Scene 13 - Corridor outside Oxygen Supply Room Victoria moves along the corridor. On hearing approaching footsteps, she ducks into the Oxygen Store room. (Harris rushes past on his way to his wife). A hissing sound fills the air and Victoria starts gagging and coughing. She moves over to examine the oxygen cylinders and finding the open one begins to close it. She senses someone else is in the room with her and turns around just in time to glimpse a tall thin man going out the door. In the corridor the man locks the door and with gloved hands adjusts the environmental controls next to the door to Emergency Ventilation. ********** Scene 14 - Impeller Area The Doctor and Jamie come across the machinery that is responsible for pumping the gas out to sea. JAMIE: What's that thing supposed to do? DOCTOR: It's an impeller Jamie. It pumps gas from the main pipe line out to sea. Come on Jamie. The Doctor leads Jamie into the Pipeline Room. Jamie notices the massive pipes running across the room. A section is transparent. JAMIE: This is the pipeline, then. DOCTOR: Yes. Yes. They all are. It's a continuation of the pipe we found on the beach. JAMIE: Aye? But we can see inside the pipe. DOCTOR: Yes. It's transparent for checking condensation and... er...anything else that might get inside. ********** Scene 15 - Oxygen Store Room Victoria tries the door handle to find it locked. She starts banging on the door. VICTORIA: Hello? Is anybody there? Oh come on..... She gives up on the door. Behind her, the vents on the far wall have all been fully opened and foam begins to seep through it into the room. She turns around. ********** Scene 16 - Pipe Line Room The Doctor and Jamie look into the transparent pipe. Suddenly the familiar thumping pulsating sound emanates from it. DOCTOR: There it is again Jamie. Can you hear it? JAMIE: Aye. What is it? DOCTOR: Your guess is as good as mine. There's something inside. Victoria's voice echoes down the pipe. VICTORIA: oov DOCTOR! DOCTOR: Victoria! Come on. The Doctor and Jamie rush from the pipe line room. ********** Scene 17 - Oxygen Store Room Victoria begins backing away as foam and weed pores through the ventilation grille. VICTORIA: Jamie.........Jamie.........help! ********** Scene 18 - Corridor The Doctor and Jamie race along a corridor heading towards Victoria's voice. DOCTOR: Victoria. Where are you? VICTORIA: oov Doctor...........Jamie........ DOCTOR: Victoria. 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More -( )- Space for next screen, Enter for next line, Esc to skip file End of File - Press aa NS: But Dr. Patterson is still out at Rig D sir. ROBSON: Tell he --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3E00034Date: 03/07/98 From: ARTIMUS BROWN Time: 01:37am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Fury From the Deep pt2 ----------------------------------- | FURY FROM THE DEEP | | EPISODE TWO | | by VICTOR PEMBERTON | | first broadcast - 23rd March 1968 | | running time - 23mins 55secs | ----------------------------------- 1. OXYGEN STORE ROOM (VICTORIA watches terrified as the weed and foam surge towards her across the floor.) VICTORIA: Doctor.........Jamie............hurry. ********** 2. CORRIDOR (Both men charged down the corridor, looking everywhere for VICTORIA.) DOCTOR/JAMIE: Victoria! Victoria, where are you!? Victoria! ********** 3. OXYGEN STORE ROOM (The weed creature gets closer and closer to VICTORIA.) VICTORIA: No! (She screams.........) ********** 4. CORRIDOR, OUTSIDE OXYGEN STORE ROOM (The screams lead the DOCTOR and JAMIE straight to the Oxygen Store Room.) JAMIE: In here! DOCTOR: (smelling/hearing the hissing noise from the door.) Gas! (Both men are overcome by a violent fit of sneezing. Composing themselves they force the door open. VICTORIA is still shouting out "No!" as the creature advances towards her. Unable to see the weed creature, the DOCTOR and JAMIE pull VICTORIA into the corridor and all three collapses by the side of the now closed door.) VICTORIA: Doctor! JAMIE: What happened? DOCTOR: Deep breath... take deep breaths (ROBSON, the CHIEF ENGINEER and VAN LUTYENS appear at the end of the corridor. They see the three travellers and charge down the corridor towards them.) ROBSON: What's going on here? Who let you three out of the cabin? (VAN LUTYENS and the CHIEF ENGINEER open the door to the Oxygen Store Room and immediately have to cover their mouths because of the gas.) VAN LUTYENS: Mr Robson, in here, it's gas! ROBSON: Check it then. Find out what it is (ROBSON stands over the three while the other two staff members re-enter the OSR with handkerchiefs over their mouths.) VICTORIA: Oh, Doctor... a horrible creature. DOCTOR: (puzzled) Creature? VICTORIA: Didn't you see it... it was over in there? It came straight towards me... covered with seaweed and foam and this horrible hissing sound... and then I screamed... DOCTOR: (holding her close in his arms.) All right, Victoria. ROBSON: (cynically) Creature?! The girl's hysterical. VAN LUTYENS: (coming out of the Oxygen Storage Room.) Mr Robson, they're empty. The seals are broken. ROBSON: (interrogating VICTORIA.) Why were you in there? VICTORIA: I... I was hiding. I heard someone coming so I went in. ROBSON: (glaring at VICTORIA.) This door is always kept locked. You broke in! You emptied those cylinders, didn't you? VICTORIA: Oh, no, no. It was open and someone locked it behind me. JAMIE: (menacingly to ROBSON) She's telling the truth the door was locked from the outside. DOCTOR: Yes it was locked. VAN LUTYENS: This room wasn't full of oxygen when we came in here. It was another gas of a toxic composition. ROBSON: All right if it was a poison gas, where did it come from? DOCTOR: What about up there? The ventilator's open. VAN LUTYENS: (to VICTORIA) Did you open the ventilator? VICTORIA: No, it opened by its self. JAMIE: Then whoever locked you in must have opened it. But how? VAN LUTYENS: From here. (The DOCTOR and VAN LUTYENS spot the ventilator control panel on the wall. The position on its dial is indicating "OPEN") ********** 5. HARRIS' QUARTERS (MAGGIE is having difficulty in breathing since she was stung by the clamp of seaweed. Feeling dizzy and disorientated, she is currently lying down on the bed in the bedroom while HARRIS is sitting by her.) HARRIS: What is it, love? MAGGIE: I don't know... I feel so dazed... my hand... HARRIS: Let me see. (He examines the hand.) It looks all right. What happened? MAGGIE: I don't... remember. HARRIS: You said you were stung or something. MAGGIE: Did I? Why, yes... yes, yes it must have been. I went to get the file you asked for. I put my hand inside... (She rises from the bed and turns to HARRIS.) ...and then... it was seaweed. HARRIS: All right, my love... (HARRIS helps MAGGIE back down onto the bed, smoothes her forehead with his hand and kisses her gently.) ...lie still and rest. Shall I get you some food, a glass of milk or something? MAGGIE: Honey... you couldn't even boil an egg. HARRIS: You shouldn't have married a scientist then. Maggie! MAGGIE: Darling...darling... darling... (MAGGIE rises, suddenly, from the bed and hugs HARRIS.) HARRIS: Maggie! (But MAGGIE stares towards the kitchen..... The seaweed that MAGGIE had thrown out on the kitchen patio was now nestling in a bed of foam. And the bubbles and the weed were popping to emit a gaseous vapour. The relentless thumping heartbeat grows in intensity, tearing into MAGGIE's mind...... HARRIS tries to get her to lie down again but fails.) What is it, love? What's the matter? MAGGIE: I still don't know... I just feel... (HARRIS manages to get her head down on the pillow again.) HARRIS: I better get you a doctor. I'll go back and see if Dr Paterson's returned yet from Rig D. Will you be all right? MAGGIE: I think so. HARRIS: Well if he isn't back, there's this other doctor, he might be able to help. I won't be long. (MAGGIE looks like she is falling asleep and, with a last look at his wife, HARRIS leaves his quarters. MAGGIE's eyes spring open as she listens to the thumping sound of the heartbeat. Then, like a zombie, she rises from the bed and moves slowly into the kitchen. The heartbeat grows louder and louder as she moves towards the kitchen patio door. She opens the door to see the out of control seaweed clump expanding in size. She slams the door and locks it. Rubbing her eyes, she stands with her back to the door, looking totally bewildered.) ********** 6. IMPELLER ROOM (In the Impeller Room ROBSON and VAN LUTYENS push their way through a crowd of engineers who are anxiously watching a cluster of meters on the wall. The CHIEF ENGINEER turns to greet ROBSON.) ROBSON: So what's the panic? CHIEF: It's the pump, sir! The revs have dropped. VAN LUTYENS: The pump is slowing down? CHIEF: Yes, she's not holding steady even now. I don't understand it. ROBSON: Well don't stand there thinking about it, man, do a complete check. DOCTOR: Excuse me, may I say something? (They all turn to the DOCTOR who is at the back of the room. ROBSON's glance tells him to mind his own business.) When I was in the pipe room a short while ago, I'm sure I heard a movement coming from inside the pipe. VAN LUTYENS: What kind of movement? DOCTOR: Well, the same as I heard on the beach, a sort of thumping sound. VAN LUTYENS: But that's what they heard out at the rigs. ROBSON: (snaps) What you heard and what everybody else heard was a mechanical fault somewhere along the line. DOCTOR: Then why did they hear it out at the rig? ROBSON: Because, my friend, underneath this impeller shaft is a vast sealed gasometer buried in the earth. It acts like an echo chamber. It'll make the sound of a pin dropping sound like that of a thunder clap. It travels along the pipes. DOCTOR: Oh, this wasn't a mechanical sound. ROBSON: All right then, suppose there is something in the pipe, a fish or something. What do you want me to do about it? (There is no doubt that the DOCTOR has put ROBSON on the defensive.) DOCTOR: Turn of the gas flow. At least until you've had a chance to investigate. ROBSON: That's out of the question. VAN LUTYENS: Mr Robson, if there is something in the pipeline... ROBSON: (adamant) We do not turn of the flow and that is final. (The CHIEF ENGINEER has been checking the readings...) CHIEF: Mr Robson, sir. ROBSON: Yes? CHIEF: Down another half. ROBSON: It must be a mechanical fault. Get a couple of men and check, man, check. VAN LUTYENS: If you allow the pressure to build up in the pipeline, you'll blow the whole rig sky-high. DOCTOR: And blow us with it. VAN LUTYENS: All because you're too stubborn to turn off the gas. ROBSON: All right, what do you think it is? One of these creatures the hysterical girl thought she saw. DOCTOR: Well who knows. ********** 7. CONTROL CONE (PRICE is showing JAMIE and VICTORIA the layout of the complex. They both look at the equipment in awe...) JAMIE: You mean to say that this place supplies all the gas for the whole of the south of England? PRICE: And the whole of Wales. (VICTORIA's face is illuminated by a succession of different coloured lights, flashing on and off all over the Cone.) VICTORIA: What are all those lights for? PRICE: (pointing to the equipment.) Well that's a plan of the entire compound and each of those lights represents a remote control camera that I can switch through to this screen if I want to look at any particular area. Like this. (He switches the camera showing JAMIE and VICTORIA different parts of the complex.) JAMIE: Oh. Where are all these 'rigs' people talk about? PRICE: Well, they're out at sea of course, but that plan over there shows you the relative position of all the rigs under our command. (VICTORIA points to the large red-coloured oblong shape in the centre of the panel that PRICE has just pointed out.) VICTORIA: What's the big one in the middle? PRICE: Well that's the central Control Rig complex, the sort of the nerve centre of the whole thing. The other rigs feed her with gas and she in turn pumps it to us via the main pipeline, see. VICTORIA: How awful to have to live out at sea. And lonely. PRICE: Oh, I don't know. Mr Robson once spent four years on one of the early rigs without ever going ashore. JAMIE: Aye, that would account for quite a lot. (The man himself enters the room and immediately starts giving orders. He turns to one of the engineers.) ROBSON: Hey you! Come in here and give a hand. JAMIE: Doesn't that man ever call anyone by their name? PRICE: Well they'd probably be in trouble if he does. No, he's all right, is Robson. Certainly knows all there is to know about rigs, anyway. (HARRIS, looking very worried, enters the room and goes straight up to PRICE.) HARRIS: Price! Has Doctor Paterson returned from Rig D yet? PRICE: No, sir. (HARRIS spots VICTORIA and JAMIE. He goes up to them.) HARRIS: Where's your friend, the Doctor? JAMIE: In there... (He points to the Impeller Area. HARRIS immediately goes down to the Impeller Area where he meets the DOCTOR coming back with VAN LUTYENS into the control room.) HARRIS: Doctor! Doctor, I need your help. It's my wife. She's very ill. DOCTOR: (awkwardly) Well I'm not sure that I... HARRIS: You must come. ROBSON: (firmly) He will not go with you. HARRIS: This is an emergency, it's my wife. ROBSON: These people are in my custody, until I decide what to do with them. HARRIS: (almost pleading) But my wife! ROBSON: (snaps) Don't bring your domestic affairs into the refinery, Harris. (To the other staff in the room.) That goes for the rest of you. HARRIS: (appalled and through clenched teeth.) Mr Robson, my wife is ill. If anything happens to her, I'll... ROBSON: All right, one hour. HARRIS: (to the DOCTOR.) Come with me. (HARRIS and the three time travellers rush from the room.) ********** 8. HARRIS' QUARTERS (MAGGIE has opened her front door to two strange men. One of them, Mr. OAK, is small and fat. The other, Mr. QUILL, is tall and thin. Both of them were dressed in a white cap, tunic and trousers. They look like medical orderlies.) OAK: Mrs Harris? MAGGIE: Yes. OAK: We are maintenance controllers, madam. I wonder if we might have a few words with your husband? MAGGIE: Oh, my husband isn't here, He's at the compound. OAK: Oh dear, that does make it rather difficult. We've come to carry out an inspection. MAGGIE: Inspection? OAK: In the Kitchen. Your husband didn't tell you? MAGGIE: No. Couldn't it wait until another day? I'm... I'm not feeling very well. OAK: I'm sorry, madam, it has to be carried out without delay. Chief Robson's instructions. MAGGIE: That man never stops giving instructions, does he? Oh, I suppose you better come in then. OAK: Thank you. My name is Mr Oak and this is my colleague, Mr Quill. (The two men enter the quarters, QUILL raising his cap in greeting.) MAGGIE: Yes, well, please be quick. I'm really not very well. OAK: Of course, madam. Now don't you worry about us, Mrs Harris, you won't even know that we're here. Will she? (MAGGIE disappears quickly back into her bedroom. Only then does Mr. OAK's smile fade. The two men enter the kitchen.) The bag, Mr Quill. (While OAK starts to examine the cooker, QUILL takes two pairs of white gloves out of the bag...) ********** 9. IMPELLER AREA (The CHIEF is still keeping an eye on the readings.) CHIEF: Mr Van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: What is it? CHIEF: Feed line from the Control Rig. An excessive pressure build up in the pipeline. VAN LUTYENS: She's almost up to capacity. CHIEF: She'll blow herself wide open. VAN LUTYENS: So there's a build up in the pressure coming in from the rigs and a drop in the pressure of the flow going out to the receiving stations. CHIEF: There must be something interfering with the impeller itself. ********** 10. CONTROL CONE (PRICE gets a message from the Communicator.) PRICE: Mr Robson, sir. ROBSON: Yes. PRICE: This is from Control Rig, sir. They say there's a pressure build up in their feed line, sir. ROBSON: Right, ask them how much, will you. (VAN LUTYENS enters from the Impeller Area.) VAN LUTYENS: Almost up to danger level, Mr Robson. Shall I give the order to turn of the gas? ROBSON: You will not, Mr Van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: There'll be an explosion any minute. ROBSON: There will not be an explosion. VAN LUTYENS: There must be, if you don't turn off the gas. (ROBSON turns his back on the Dutchman and yells out some orders.) ROBSON: Open release valve, Section D, full pressure, will you? VAN LUTYENS: What are you doing, man? It's too late for that. You can't possibly release enough gas in time. ROBSON: You want to bet, Mr Van Lutyens? ********** 11. HARRIS' QUARTERS (MAGGIE is sitting at a dressing table in the bedroom. Now and then banging sounds come from the kitchen. MAGGIE looks very tired and drawn. In the kitchen, the two men suddenly stop work as the heartbeat starts up again. Both men are now wearing gloves. With a smile OAK turns on the cooker and QUILL opens the patio door. As the two men turn and start to walk towards the bedroom, the foam starts to sweep into the kitchen. In the bedroom, MAGGIE is brushing her hair. When she looks into the dresser mirror she sees OAK and QUILL looking at her with stupid, idiotic grins on their faces. She looks at them in puzzlement.) MAGGIE: What are you doing in here? (no answer) Is there something that you want? (They both stare at her with their grins and MAGGIE starts to look worried. She starts to move away, but then OAK and QUILL open their mouths wider and wider, toxic gas hissing out. MAGGIE tries to back away from them but they are between her and the door. Soon MAGGIE is overcome by the gas and collapses on the floor.) ********** 12. SEA (Somewhere along a lonely stretch of beach, the hissing sound of gas continues. This time however, it is being released from the valve on top of the giant pipeline tube. The hissing sound suddenly stops, as the valve is closed.) ********** 13. IMPELLER AREA (A large cheer goes up from the Engineers when the readings change.) CHIEF: It's down. The pressure in the pipeline, it's back to normal. (VAN LUTYENS says something in Dutch (probably "Thank Goodness") and then carries on......) VAN LUTYENS: I wouldn't have thought you could possibly have done it in the time. ROBSON: When you have too much gas in the tube, you release it. Didn't they teach you that much back at evening classes in the Hague, Mr Van Lutyens? (He turns to PRICE.) Contact Chief Baxter, Control Rig, will you? Tell him the immediate crisis is over. Oh, and a... contact the other rig chiefs. PRICE: Right. VAN LUTYENS: But the feed out to the receiving stations is still dropping. The impeller is still slowing down... (This causes ROBSON to snap... again.) ROBSON: What's the matter with you, Van Lutyens? You've been trying to teach me my job ever since you came here. I've been drilling for gas in the North Sea for most of my life. I don't need people like you or Harris to teach me how to do it. PRICE: (from the communicator.) Mr Robson, sir. It's C Rig, sir. Can't raise them, no response at all. VAN LUTYENS: (ironically) So, the immediate crisis is over, yeah. ********** 14. HARRIS' QUARTERS (HARRIS and the TARDIS crew arrive at HARRIS' quarters to see the front door was wide open.) HARRIS: Maggie, I've brought the Doctor. VICTORIA: Oh no it's the same... DOCTOR: I smell gas! There's gas in this house! JAMIE: It's coming from in here. (JAMIE points to the bedroom and all four charge in. MAGGIE is lying alone on the floor, but OAK and QUILL are nowhere to be seen. The gas is overpowering and the four have to cover their mouths and noses to stop themselves breathing in the gas.) DOCTOR: The Window, Jamie! Jamie, the window! Quickly! Quickly! (JAMIE, with a wooden chair, smashes open the bedroom window. Clear air rushes into the room. HARRIS kneels by his wife trying to awake her.) HARRIS: Maggie... ********** 15. CONTROL CONE/IMPELLER AREA (PRICE turns from the communicator.) PRICE: I'm sorry, sir, I can't raise them. (At the area between the Control Cone and the Impeller Area, VAN LUTYENS and ROBSON are arguing.) VAN LUTYENS: There, are you pleased with what you've done? ROBSON: I'm warning you, Van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: And I warned you, but you are too [another Dutch word], too stubborn to listen. Look at the facts, man. The fact that we lose contact with two rigs. Have unprecedented, inexplicable pressure variations for over three weeks. ROBSON: So that's it. You've been talking with Harris, eh? VAN LUTYENS: Yeah, Mr Harris did show me his figures. Only because you refused to listen to him. That's why I went out to the Control Rig, to see if there was an explanation out there. ROBSON: And what did you find? Nothing. I'll tell you why. 'Cause there's nothing to find! VAN LUTYENS: All the same, Mr Harris' figures... ROBSON: (almost screaming) Are bunk! And the rest of his upply-tapey tin-pot ideas. His still a school kid with his bits of paper and his graph and his... slide rule. You think I'm going to take any notice of him? I know every nut and bolt on every one of those rigs out there! VAN LUTYENS: (roaring back) All right! So your prejudice prevents you from accepting Mr Harris' calculations. But what about me? Do you treat my opinion with as much contempt? ROBSON: (scoffs) You? You are here to offer me your expert advice, but I'm not obliged to take it. I run this outfit the way I think fit. Is that understood? CHIEF: (calling from the Impeller Area) Mr Robson, the impeller. Quick, two men. (They rush into the Impeller Area.) She's down to 140 revs. Something must be jamming it at the base. (The Impeller slows down and stops......) VAN LUTYENS: Well, Mr Robson, where do we go from here? Come on, now, you have all the answers, don't you? CHIEF: Wait a minute, quiet! VAN LUTYENS: What is it? CHIEF: I think I can here something... (And he can. It is the unmistakable sound of the heartbeat...) ********** 16. HARRIS' QUARTERS (The DOCTOR examines MAGGIE with his stethoscope, while HARRIS and the others look on worriedly.) DOCTOR: No, no, no. No. HARRIS: Look, what's the matter with her? DOCTOR: Well she's in some sort of coma. Possibly because of this gas, it was toxic. HARRIS: It isn't possible there could have been a gas leak in the flat. Besides, natural gas isn't toxic. DOCTOR: Well this isn't natural gas. This is the gas we found when Victoria was locked in the Oxygen Room. HARRIS: But where could it have come from? DOCTOR: I don't know. What was the matter with her before this happened? HARRIS: Well, she said she'd been stung by some... seaweed or something. JAMIE: Seaweed? HARRIS: I asked her to get a file from my study, and she found the seaweed inside it. DOCTOR: Did you put it there? HARRIS: Well no, of course not. DOCTOR: (standing up from examining MAGGIE.) There's no marks or abrasions. HARRIS: No. VICTORIA: Doctor? DOCTOR: Um. VICTORIA: What's this? DOCTOR: What. Oh! (VICTORIA points at the seaweed which is now in another corner of the bedroom.) JAMIE: A bit of seaweed. What's it doing in here? DOCTOR: It's still wet. HARRIS: Perhaps it's the same sort that Maggie was talking about. (HARRIS reaches out for the seaweed...) DOCTOR: No! Don't touch it. HARRIS: Why? DOCTOR: Well in the first place you don't want to get stung like your wife, do you? And in the second place, whoever put it in your file meant you to touch it. HARRIS: But that's ridiculous. Wait a minute! I was sure I put that file in my briefcase this morning, but it wasn't there when I went to get it. I was on my way home... when I met Maggie. But why? Why should anyone want me to get stung by a piece of seaweed? VICTORIA: Well I hate the stuff. It's so slimy and horrid. JAMIE: Och, well you've seen seaweed before, haven't you? There was loads of it down by the pipeline this morning. (This catches the DOCTOR's interest.) DOCTOR: By the pipeline? JAMIE: Aye, the place is overrun with it. VICTORIA: Well not like that, it didn't move. JAMIE: Move? ********** 17. IMPELLER AREA (Everybody is rushing about now. The CHIEF is standing by the readings and yelling orders at everybody.) CHIEF: I want them all checked, every remote control release valve on the line. And check and double check all those circuits. (VAN LUTYENS spots the CHIEF.) VAN LUTYENS: Excuse me, Chief, could I have a word with you please? CHIEF: Yes of course. VAN LUTYENS: The impeller is still not functioning, eh? CHIEF: No it's not. VAN LUTYENS: And that sound we heard, have you heard it again? CHIEF: No. As Mr Robson says, it's probably just a mechanical fault. VAN LUTYENS: You believe that? CHIEF: Well it's really not my job to... VAN LUTYENS: Ah! Come on, man, you're the chief engineer the impeller is your responsibility. CHIEF: It's not my job to formulate theories, it's Mr Robson's. (The name causes VAN LUTYENS to explode.) VAN LUTYENS: Robson! Robson, what's the matter with you? Are you frightened of him or something? CHIEF: No, Mr Van Lutyens, I just respect his judgement. VAN LUTYENS: Well I'm sorry Chief. Could I have a word with you in private? CHIEF: Well I... VAN LUTYENS: It's important. CHIEF: (to the other Engineers) Check the feed valves! (The two men walk into the Control Hall and VAN LUTYENS pulls out a diagram.) VAN LUTYENS: I've been looking at the installation plan, and the ah...impeller intake is rather particular. I think I know where the blockage may be. CHIEF: All right. (The Dutchman takes out a small pen and uses it to point some things out on the diagram.) VAN LUTYENS: Well this valve is at the base of the main shaft and leads directly to the intake, yeah? CHIEF: Uhum. VAN LUTYENS: Well as far as I can see there is no point between that valve and the... Control Rig where a blockage could occur big enough to stop the impeller. (The Dutchman points this area out but the CHIEF points out another area.) CHIEF: Apart from the under-sea emergency valve. VAN LUTYENS: But you've got remote control observation on those and they're free. CHIEF: Um. VAN LUTYENS: So the impeller intake must be at fault. CHIEF: It's possible. VAN LUTYENS: Possible, man, it's the only answer! What we have to do is to go down and free that valve. CHIEF: I'll have to check with H9 uFfKIQߒ("3?/*oEgv 0 ~yVܞ ɮzL13`C֝_P Yg /t֐jcy1Yt9%Œڳ: U m)eZ*(B VڦVм>|\t>IӪQnsXhX: 3cp 86J5Z㊎A z]o`]J{i PNEY$> KS~0X>v\Q;5qѭ,. & @ @ (   ,  _|_ _b (W ) (E ) PRN LPT1 .ZIP COM1 Searching ZIP: file: already exists. Overwrite (y/n/a/r)? Unknown compression type: inconsistent local header for file: file fails CRC check OK has errors! Testing: Extracting: UnShrinking: Expanding: Exploding: Inflating: PKUNZIP file has bad table Invalid Shrunk file Invalid filename: No update needed. More -( )- Space for next screen, Enter for next line, Esc to skip file End of File - Press a~t N]; towards the bedroom, the foam starts to sweep into the kitchen. In the bedroom, MAGGIE is brushing her hair. When she looks into the dresser mirror she sees OAK and QUILL looking at her with stupid, idiotic grins on their faces. She looks at them in puzzlement.) MAGGIE: What are you doing in here? (no answer) Is there something that you want? (They both stare at her with their grins and MAGGIE starts to look worried. She starts to move away, but then OAK and QUILL open their mouths wider and wider, toxic gas hissing out. MAGGIE tries to back away from them but they are between her and the door. Soon MAGGIE is overcome by the gas and collapses on the floor.) ********** 12. SEA (Somewhere along a lonely stretch of beach, the hissing sound of gas continues. This time however, it is being released from the valve on top of the giant pipeline tube. The hissing sound suddenly stops, as the valve is closed.) ********** 13. IMPELLER AREA (A large cheer goes up from the Engineers when the readings change.) CHIEF: It's down. The pressure in the pipeline, it's back to normal. (VAN LUTYENS says something in Dutch (probably "Thank Goodness") and then carries on......) VAN LUTYENS: I wouldn't have thought you could possibly have done it in the time. ROBSON: When you have too much gas in the tube, you release it. Didn't they teach you that much back at evening classes in the Hague, Mr Van Lutyens? (He turns to PRICE.) Contact Chief Baxter, Control Rig, will you? Tell him the immediate crisis is over. Oh, and a... contact the other rig chiefs. PRICE: Right. VAN LUTYENS: But the feed out to the receiving stations is still dropping. The impeller is still slowing down... (This causes ROBSON to snap... again.) ROBSON: What's the matter with you, Van Lutyens? You've been trying to teach me my job ever since you came here. I've been drilling for gas in the North Sea for most of my life. I don't need people like you or Harris to teach me how to do it. PRICE: (from the communicator.) Mr Robson, sir. It's C Rig, sir. Can't raise them, no response at all. VAN LUTYENS: (ironically) So, the immediate crisis is over, yeah. ********** 14. HARRIS' QUARTERS (HARRIS and the TARDIS crew arrive at HARRIS' quarters to see the front door was wide open.) HARRIS: Maggie, I've brought the Doctor. VICTORIA: Oh no it's the same... DOCTOR: I smell gas! There's gas in this house! JAMIE: It's coming from in here. (JAMIE points to the bedroom and all four charge in. MAGGIE is lying alone on the floor, but OAK and QUILL are nowhere to be seen. The gas is overpowering and the four have to cover their mouths and noses to stop themselves breathing in the gas.) DOCTOR: The Window, Jamie! Jamie, the window! Quickly! Quickly! (JAMIE, with a wooden chair, smashes open the bedroom window. Clear air rushes into the room. HARRIS kneels by his wife trying to awake her.) HARRIS: Maggie... ********** 15. CONTROL CONE/IMPELLER AREA (PRICE turns from the communicator.) PRICE: I'm sorry, sir, I can't raise them. (At the area between the Control Cone and the Impeller Area, VAN LUTYENS and ROBSON are arguing.) VAN LUTYENS: There, are you pleased with what you've done? ROBSON: I'm warning you, Van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: And I warned you, but you are too [another Dutch word], too stubborn to listen. Look at the facts, man. The fact that we lose contact with two rigs. Have unprecedented, inexplicable pressure variations for over three weeks. ROBSON: So that's it. You've been talking with Harris, eh? VAN LUTYENS: Yeah, Mr Harris did show me his figures. Only because you refused to listen to him. That's why I went out to the Control Rig, to see if there was an explanation out there. ROBSON: And what did you find? Nothing. I'll tell you why. 'Cause there's nothing to find! VAN LUTYENS: All the same, Mr Harris' figures... ROBSON: (almost screaming) Are bunk! And the rest of his upply-tapey tin-pot ideas. His still a school kid with his bits of paper and his graph and his... slide rule. You think I'm going to take any notice of him? I know every nut and bolt on every one of those rigs out there! VAN LUTYENS: (roaring back) All right! So your prejudice prevents you from accepting Mr Harris' calculations. But what about me? Do you treat my opinion with as much contempt? ROBSON: (scoffs) You? You are here to offer me your expert advice, but I'm not obliged to take it. I run this outfit the way I think fit. Is that understood? CHIEF: (calling from the Impeller Area) Mr Robson, the impeller. Quick, two men. (They rush into the Impeller Area.) She's down to 140 revs. Something must be jamming it at the base. (The Impeller slows down and stops......) VAN LUTYENS: Well, Mr Robson, where do we go from here? Come on, now, you have all the --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3E00035Date: 03/07/98 From: ARTIMUS BROWN Time: 01:38am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Fury From the Deep pt3 _________________________________________________________ FURY FROM THE DEEP EPISODE THREE by VICTOR PEMBERTON first broadcast - 30th March 1968 running time - 25mins 34secs _________________________________________________________ 1. IMPELLER AREA (ROBSON enters the room and the CHIEF calls him over.) CHIEF: Chief! ROBSON: What's the matter? CHIEF: Mr Robson, that noise in the impeller, it's started again. I think we should go down and check the main valve. ROBSON: Oh, you do, do you? CHIEF: It's right where we think the blockage is. (ROBSON catches the "We".) ROBSON: We? CHIEF: Well, Mr Van Luty... ROBSON: Mr Van Lutyens. I thought he'd get his nose in. ENGINEER: Come on! ROBSON: You lot get back to work! (He spots VAN LUTYENS and starts to march up to him.) Van Lutyens, I want to talk to you. (VAN LUTYENS is standing by the actual pipeline.) VAN LUTYENS: Mr Robson, there is something alive in the pipeline. (It is clear that ROBSON is just holding onto his temper.) ROBSON: You're out of your mind, there's nothing down there. CHIEF: I promise you, sir, I did hear something. ROBSON: You've been unnerving my crew. Now you, get out! (The heartbeat starts up again.) VAN LUTYENS: Listen! (The CHIEF hears it too.) CHIEF: That's it! ROBSON: Did you hear what I said? VAN LUTYENS: Shut up and listen will you! Down there... in the darkness... waiting... _________________________________________________________________ 2. HARRIS' QUARTERS (In the bedroom, the DOCTOR and his companions are looking at the seaweed on the floor while HARRIS is trying to wake his sleeping wife on the bed. JAMIE reaches out to pick up the seaweed...) DOCTOR: No, Jamie, don't touch it. JAMIE: But it's only a piece of seaweed. DOCTOR: Yes, unless it really did move like Victoria said. JAMIE: Oh, how can it move. It's not a living thing, is it? DOCTOR: Everything in the sea is living, Jamie. VICTORIA: Well it did move! It gave me a shock. It was like a spider. (The DOCTOR takes out an empty polythene bag.) DOCTOR: Yes, well we're not taking any chances. Hold that for me, will you? (He hands JAMIE the bag.) JAMIE: Well what's this for? DOCTOR: We're going to take a closer look at this weed. Now bring the bag down here. Right onto the floor. Don't let it touch your fingers. (Using a pencil, the DOCTOR puts the seaweed in the bag.) Careful, slowly does it. Mind your fingers. There... JAMIE: What are you going to do with it? (He seals the bag up.) DOCTOR: We're going to see if an ordinary piece of seaweed really can move. (HARRIS sits on the bed. He has been unable to wake MAGGIE up.) HARRIS: Doctor, my wife, will she be all right? DOCTOR: Oh yes, I think so. I don't think there is any panic, but I'd get her under medical supervision if I was you. HARRIS: Yes, I'll go back to the Medicare Centre at the Compound and arrange for her to be taken in there. DOCTOR: Yes, you do that. (He leaves his quarters - a very upset man.) VICTORIA: Poor man. (JAMIE realises something....) JAMIE: Aye. Hey! I thought we were supposed to be prisoners? DOCTOR: Yes, so did I. We better make the most of it, um. We've got a lot of work to do back at the TARDIS. She seems to be sleeping peacefully. Come on. _________________________________________________________________ 3. IMPELLER ROOM (The three men were still discussing the heartbeat.) CHIEF: What is it, that sound? VAN LUTYENS: It's uncanny... it's like a heartbeat. (The heartbeat stops.) CHIEF: It's stopped again. VAN LUTYENS: Well this is surely proof enough! ROBSON: Proof? VAN LUTYENS: That there is something down there blocking the impeller (ROBSON doesn't believe this.) ROBSON: Rubbish! Hysterical nonsense. VAN LUTYENS: But you heard it. That dreadful sound... ROBSON: I heard a fault in the base of the impeller. VAN LUTYENS: But the impeller isn't working! Don't you believe a thing until you see it? (But ROBSON has had enough.) ROBSON: I want that pump operational in half an hour! Now get to it! (He storms out....) _________________________________________________________________ 4. TARDIS - SCIENCE ROOM (In the Science Room, the DOCTOR drops his seaweed specimen into a small glass tank, Attached to the side of the tank are two miniature metal cylinders containing two transparent tubes inserted through holes on either side of the tank.) JAMIE: What are you doing, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well you see, Jamie, these two cylinders contain a small amount of natural gas. It should be quite interesting to see what sort of effect it... it has on the weed. How are you doing, Victoria? (VICTORIA is at a workbench nearby, heating some liquid in a test tube over a Bunsen flame.) VICTORIA: I don't know, I think you ought to have a look. (The DOCTOR took the tube.) DOCTOR: Um... Oh yes, well that's got the natural iron...content. VICTORIA: Well I did the Bunsen test, like you told me, but I found something which worried me. DOCTOR: Oh yes, I'm not surprised. Is this hot? VICTORIA: No, no. (VICTORIA reaches across to a bulb-shaped glass container. Inside is a small particle of the seaweed specimen floating in a colourless liquid. The sides of the container are tarnished with something which resembled rust....) DOCTOR: You see this a... this rusty stuff here. VICTORIA: Yes. DOCTOR: Well it means that the weed is giving out a gas - probably toxic. VICTORIA: Toxic? DOCTOR: Um. (JAMIE is at the DOCTOR's table, peering into the microscope) JAMIE: Hey, Doctor! What are these little wriggly things in the weed? DOCTOR: Now just a minute, Jamie... looking at... (What JAMIE has just said makes the DOCTOR turn about.) ...little wriggly things! Where? JAMIE: Here, look. Look in there. (The DOCTOR gives VICTORIA the bottle and goes over and takes over from JAMIE and peers into the microscope.) DOCTOR: Jamie! This is it! There's molecular movement! Come and see, Victoria. There! Why, that's amazing. JAMIE: What does it mean? DOCTOR: Hmmmmmmm...... (Getting no answer from the DOCTOR, VICTORIA decides to spell it out for JAMIE.) VICTORIA: It means, Jamie, that the weed is just as much alive as you and me. (They look at the seaweed in amazement.) _________________________________________________________________ 5. CONTROL HALL (HARRIS, coming back into the Control Cone, bumps into VAN LUTYENS.) VAN LUTYENS: Ah, Mr Harris. I've been trying to get hold of you. Mr Robson won't listen to reason. HARRIS: (snaps) I'm sorry, Van Lutyens, I've got something more important on my mind at the moment. VAN LUTYENS: Important! What is more important..? HARRIS: My wife is ill! Get out of my way, man. (He charges out into the corridor and marches into the Control Cone.) Price! PRICE: Yes, sir HARRIS: Is Doctor Paterson back? PRICE: No, we've heard nothing from D Rig, sir. HARRIS: Right. Get on to the Matron at the Medicare Unit and tell her to send a couple of orderlies over to my quarters with a stretcher to bring my wife in. She's ill. PRICE: Yes, sir. (ROBSON notices the new arrival and marches over, ready to have a go at him too.) ROBSON: What's the panic now, Harris? HARRIS: Oh, and get on with it. ROBSON: Harris, I asked you a question. HARRIS: My wife is ill. She needs medical attention. ROBSON: What's the matter with her, she got a hangover? HARRIS: She's very ill, Mr Robson. ROBSON: Who says so, that Doctor fellow? Incidently, where is he and the two kids? HARRIS: Oh... well, I left them in my quarters when I found my wife was ill. ROBSON: You what? Those three prisoners were in your charge and you left them there? HARRIS: I was worried about my wife. I didn't have time to think about it... ROBSON: That's your trouble you never do think, do you Harris, when you should. Those three prisoners were in your charge. HARRIS: I don't care. Don't you understand? My wife was lying on the floor when I got there. She was unconscious and that smell of toxic gas was there. She's been poisoned, Robson, poisoned! VAN LUTYENS: And this toxic gas, where does it come from? HARRIS: Oh, I don't know. ROBSON: And none of us will know now you've let them loose. HARRIS: How could they possibly have anything to do with it? (Both men's voices rise with the argument.) ROBSON: That still doesn't alter the fact that you let those prisoners go without my authority. HARRIS: Prisoners? A harmless old man and a couple of... teenagers? ROBSON: That "harmless old man" is probably a saboteur. It's probably him that's been tampering with that release valve on the shoreline. Creating all those variations in pressure you got so excited about! HARRIS: Oh don't be so ridiculous, Robson. You're clutching at straws, stupidly blind to the real facts! ROBSON: Don't shout at me, boy! (The CHIEF enters from the Impeller Area.) CHIEF: Mr Robson, sir. Mr Robson. The impeller, it's moving again. ROBSON: Good man. I told you it was only a mechanical fault, didn't I? CHIEF: It just started quite... suddenly. ROBSON: Well keep it going, man. CHIEF: I don't know if we can... ROBSON: Don't lose it now. (ROBSON shouts out at everybody.) You fools! You stupid fools! CHIEF: Well the faults not this end! It must be jammed at the base. (The Controller whirls about on VAN LUTYENS in fury...) ROBSON: You wanted this, didn't you? It's just what you wanted! VAN LUTYENS: You should have listened to me, Robson. ROBSON: What? Turned of the flow? Ruined a reputation of thirty years. VAN LUTYENS: Reputation! Don't you realise that what is going on here is beyond your comprehension? That whatever it is that is in the pipelines, that's jamming the impeller, has taken over the rigs, is a menace and a threat to us all? ROBSON: The only menace and threat around here is you, Van Lutyens and you Harris. Listen... (He notices the other members of the Control Cone staff are looking at him.) WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT!? (Back to the other major members of staff...) I want that impeller working in half an hour. I'll be in my quarters. Let me know as soon as the impeller starts moving again. (He storms out of the room.) VAN LUTYENS: (swearing in Dutch.) He's cracking up, Harris. HARRIS: (starts to leave the room.) Look. I've got to get back to my wife. VAN LUTYENS: Harris! You can't go now. He's losing control. HARRIS: My wife's been poisoned. VAN LUTYENS: She's in good hands, ya? She'll be brought into the Medicare Unit. What can you do? HARRIS: But I ought to go and see her. VAN LUTYENS: To hang about and worry, that's all. Robson is cracking up. You're the only man with authority to take over. We need you here. (HARRIS gives it some thought and then calls the CHIEF over.) HARRIS: Chief. CHIEF: Sir. HARRIS: Mr Robson, you know him better than any of us... How do... do you think he's all right? CHIEF: Well he's under a lot of pressure, I think he's nerves are a bit... VAN LUTYENS: Yeah pressure, strain. He's cracking up, I tell you. CHIEF: Well you're not helping him you know. VAN LUTYENS: That's not my job. I'm here to give technical advice, which he ignores. All right, he knows a lot about engineering, but not all. And what he does not know is the state of mind of those men out on the rigs. CHIEF: He ought to know. He was out on those rigs himself long enough. VAN LUTYENS: Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah. Plenty of professional experience of normal conditions, but these are not normal conditions. There is something very strange going on here, but he refuses to accept the new factor. CHIEF: So what... what do you think he should do? VAN LUTYENS: I know what I would do. Close the Compound, evacuate the rigs! CHIEF: He'd never do it. VAN LUTYENS: We've lost contact with two rigs. We have a major blockage in the main pipeline. The impeller is jammed, and we still don't know what is causing the trouble. CHIEF: But we regained contact with Baxter on Rig D and he said everything was under control. VAN LUTYENS: Yeah, and we've not heard from him since. And what about Rig C? CHIEF: Oh that could be a telecommunications fault somewhere. VAN LUTYENS: Yeah, it could be, but we have to check that it is and we have to check the valve at the base of the impeller. But what does Robson do? Nothing! Nothing! HARRIS: Well I suppose he might listen if we all put it to him. What do you think, Chief? CHIEF: You're absolutely right of course. We must check. _________________________________________________________________ 6. TARDIS, SCIENCE ROOM (The DOCTOR has got an old dusty book open. He finds a page with a picture of the Weed Creature.) VICTORIA: That's it, Doctor! That's the creature I saw back at the Compound. DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I was afraid it would be. VICTORIA: But how did it get in this book? DOCTOR: Well I told you, Victoria, this is a book of legends and superstitions. This particular drawing is supplied by ancient mariners in the north sea in the middle of the eighteenth century, Jamie. JAMIE: That's my time. You mean to say this is the creature Victoria saw back at the Compound. DOCTOR: Yes I think there's no doubt about it. JAMIE: Well, what about these great clumps of weed. DOCTOR: Well there's obviously some connection between the weed and the creatures themselves. (JAMIE's face suddenly starts to curl. He is building up to a sneeze.) JAMIE: Ah, aahh. (JAMIE sneezes but the DOCTOR points back at the seaweed specimen, in the glass tank. It has doubled its size and its tentacles are hanging menacingly over the edge of the white foam-covered tank. The heartbeat sound is increasing in strength.) VICTORIA: Oh, no! DOCTOR: Gas! Jamie! Jamie, help me get the lid on! Oh, no... quickly! (VICTORIA screams out loud just as the DOCTOR dodges the tentacles. To their amazement the heartbeat stops and the tentacles flop back inside the tank. The two men push the top over the glass tank.) I was right. The weed formations are feeding off the natural gas beneath the North Sea and giving of toxic gas. Come on. We must get back to Harris'... Harris' quarters. Come along. Just a minute, that weed went back in its tank very suddenly, didn't it? I wonder why? Come on. VICTORIA: Oh! (All three rush out of the room.) _________________________________________________________________ 7. CONTROL CONE (From the observation deck, ROBSON has listened to the others' ideas and now...... totally loses it...) ROBSON: (screaming so that everybody looks at him.) No, I will not listen! It's you Van Lutyens, isn't it? Isn't it? You've been undermining my authority ever since you came here. You and Harris. You've been stirring up trouble just to get at me, haven't you? You've even got the Chief on your side now. One of my oldest and trusted friends. CHIEF: Mr Robson... ROBSON: At least I thought I could trust you. CHIEF: Mr Robson, all we wanted to do is... ROBSON: I know what you want! I know what you all want! You gonna get at me, just to give up! I'm not going to give you that pleasure. Why don't you go and join him? Go on, join Van Lutyens! Go on, join him! What are you standing around for? What are you starring at? I'm in charge! I'm in charge here! HARRIS: Mr Robson! ROBSON: I'm in charge of this Compound, Harris! It's my responsibility! Mine! My responsibility! (And he rushes out of the room.) VAN LUTYENS: Do you still think he's capable of running this place? You do what you like. I'm going to get in touch with my people in the Hague. HARRIS: What can they do? VAN LUTYENS: Well they might push your people in London into some sort of action. (To PRICE.) Give me a direct line to Van der Post, Hague Central! PRICE: Yes, sir. _________________________________________________________________ 8. ROBSON'S CABIN (ROBSON slams the door behind him and locks it. He takes a picture out from a drawer and stares at it. It's the picture of a young woman. He then collapses on the bed, trying to rest. Outside the room, Mr. OAK moves forward and tries to open the door. ROBSON is alerted to the fact that somebody is at the door.) ROBSON: Who's there? Go away. I'm not to be disturbed. (Mr. OAK smiles and moves to a switch marked EMERGENCY VENT. He turns the switch to OPEN... In the cabin ROBSON is lying on his bunk, trying to sleep. Suddenly, his eyes spring open, and stare at the ceiling. He hears a slight hum coming from the ventilation grille. For a moment nothing happens. Then the heartbeat starts up and a large bit of white foam erupts from the ventilator grille!) Aaarrgh! (The foam lands on ROBSON's face... Outside the room HARRIS hears ROBSON's screams.) HARRIS: Mr Robson! (HARRIS tries to open the door, but ROBSON opens it himself. He is in a state of panic.) ROBSON: No... no... aarrgh! My face... aarrgh! (HARRIS sees the white foam. He tries to hold ROBSON and get him to explain what's happened, but ROBSON pushes HARRIS out of the way and runs down the corridor.) HARRIS: (Shouting) Mr Robson, wait! I need your permission to send two men down the impeller shaft... (But ROBSON was out of sight.) _________________________________________________________________ 9. HARRIS' QUARTERS (VICTORIA helps the DOCTOR down the corridor towards the quarters.) DOCTOR: Well, thank you, Victoria. Yes, nobody here. Better that way. JAMIE: You speak for yourself. I'd rather... ah! VICTORIA: Oh no! JAMIE: Ahtchoo! (This alerts the DOCTOR to the fact that there is gas in the Quarters.) DOCTOR: Gas! (All three cover their mouths.) VICTORIA: Where's it coming from? DOCTOR: Jamie, try the kitchen. (JAMIE tries the kitchen while the DOCTOR and VICTORIA try the Bedroom. The DOCTOR switches on the bedroom light... The air is immediately pierced by the thumping, heartbeat sound. VICTORIA screams hysterically as the floor crawls with clumps of pulsating seaweed, whose bubbled tendrils reach out from the mass of white foam. Realising that there is no one in the room, the DOCTOR and VICTORIA rush back out.) Mrs Harris! She's gone away! VICTORIA: Mrs Harris? DOCTOR: Mrs Harris. Oh yes of course, Mr Harris had her taken over to the medical centre. At least I hope he did. JAMIE: Doctor, quick help me! DOCTOR: That's Jamie! VICTORIA: Jamie! JAMIE: Doctor, I'm in here. (The DOCTOR burst into the kitchen to find JAMIE in real trouble. The patio door is wide open and JAMIE is balanced precariously on top of a table in the middle of the room. All around him, the floor is covered in foam, just like in the bedroom...) I can't hold out much longer. VICTORIA: Oh! Oh! DOCTOR: Quick! The terrace! (JAMIE still keeps shouting for help and the DOCTOR and VICTORIA keep on moving about the house.) Victoria, follow me! VICTORIA: What are we going to do? (The DOCTOR notices a pair of long curtains hanging at the hall windows.) DOCTOR: Give me a hand! (He tears down the curtains with VICTORIA's help.) Come on! (They both rush to the terrace.) Jamie, Catch this! (The DOCTOR throws one end of the curtains to JAMIE who catches it.) Come on, you can do this! Come on. (JAMIE manages to try his end of the Curtains to the leg of the Table.) Press it down, Victoria! (And they start to pull JAMIE's table out of the kitchen to safety.) _________________________________________________________________ 10. ROBSON'S QUARTERS (HARRIS, VAN LUTYENS and PRICE burst into ROBSON's cabin.) HARRIS: In here, look! (There was nothing there. The ventilator the grille is broken.) Well it was in here. I saw it! VAN LUTYENS: You did? HARRIS: Yes, it was moving. Something alive. You don't believe me! VAN LUTYENS: Oh yes, I believe you, Mr Harris. It must have come out of the ventilator grille, like it did in the oxygen store. HARRIS: You mean when that girl Victoria was locked in. VAN LUTYENS: Yeah. And having achieved its purpose, back down the shaft. HARRIS: Purpose? What purpose? VAN LUTYENS: Who knows? We know very little about it. And no one tried to find out. _________________________________________________________________ 11. CONTROL CONE (During this conversation, VAN LUTYENS and HARRIS walk back from ROBSON's Quarters to the Control Cone.) HARRIS: I know. VAN LUTYENS: Least of all Robson. HARRIS: Yes, he rushed out of here as though he were... he was out of his mind. VAN LUTYENS: You better alert security. He may do himself some harm. HARRIS: Yes, you're right. At least the stuff won't get out of here. VAN LUTYENS: Oh really, Mr Harris. There must be hundreds of grills in this Compound. And once the foam has got into the shaft it could emerge from any one of them. HARRIS: I suppose you're right. Then we must insist that all emergency ventilators are kept shut. VAN LUTYENS: Mr Harris, you know what you must do now? HARRIS: (in puzzlement) Do? VAN LUTYENS: Assert yourself. Take over the Compound. (The two men arrive at the Control Cone.) HARRIS: Price! PRICE: Yes, sir. HARRIS: I want you to alert the security posts. Mr Robson may be ill. I'd like to know he's whereabouts. PRICE: Very good, sir. HARRIS: And order all areas to keep their emergency air vents closed. Understand? PRICE: Yes, sir. VAN LUTYENS: You're taking over then? HARRIS: Robson is still officially in charge. VAN LUTYENS: I've already informed my authorities at the Hague. You must do the same with your Director in London. HARRIS: Yes. Price. PRICE: Yes, sir. HARRIS: Get me Board Headquarters. I want to speak to Megan Jones. _________________________________________________________________ 12. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and his two companions walk back down the corridor towards the Control Cone.) DOCTOR: Are you all right, Jamie? JAMIE: Oh, I've come over dizzy. DOCTOR: Well you just rest a while. JAMIE: I'll just get my breath back. VICTORIA: Doctor, why is it that we always land up in trouble? DOCTOR: Well Victoria, it's the spice of life, my dear. VICTORIA: Well I'm not so sure. I don't really like been scared out of my wits every second. DOCTOR: Is something wrong? VICTORIA: Well I just wish that one... Oh never mind. (VICTORIA walks of ahead of the two men down the corridor.) DOCTOR: You right, Jamie? Come with me. JAMIE: What's the matter with Victoria? (The DOCTOR looks at JAMIE and they move of along the corridor.) _________________________________________________________________ 13. CONTROL CONE (PRICE is talking to a woman in her late forties on the communicator viewscreen.) PRICE: Thank you, Miss Jones. We'll see you then in three hours time. Goodbye. HARRIS: Three hours and the whole Compound will be crawling with board officials. VAN LUTYENS: Let's hope the situation doesn't get any worse. HARRIS: I only hope Megan Jones understands why I've taken over. It was she who insisted that Robson should know this particular complex in the early days. VAN LUTYENS: You did right, I will stand by you. You couldn't let Robson go on. You had the men on the rigs to think of. They are now her responsibility. HARRIS: If only we knew what we were up against. These creatures that have been getting into the refinery, where do they come from? We don't even know what they are? (The TARDIS crew enters the room.) DOCTOR: That's where you're wrong, Mr Harris. We do know what they are. At least I think we do. Seaweed! HARRIS: Seaweed? DOCTOR: Yes. Not the sort that you'd normally find on the beach. This seaweed happens to be dangerously alive. HARRIS: Alive? But how can it be... DOCTOR: I think you better listen to me. I think you'd all better listen to me. Large formations of seaweed have been coming up onH9 uFfKIQߒ("3?/*oEgv 0 ~yVܞ ɮzL13`C֝_P Yg /t֐jcy1Yt9%Œڳ: U m)eZ*(B VڦVм>|\t>IӪQnsXhX: 3cp 86J5Z㊎A z]o`]J{i PNEY$> KS~0X>v\Q;5qѭ,. & @ @ (   ,  _|_ _b (W ) (E ) PRN LPT1 .ZIP COM1 Searching ZIP: file: already exists. Overwrite (y/n/a/r)? Unknown compression type: inconsistent local header for file: file fails CRC check OK has errors! Testing: Extracting: UnShrinking: Expanding: Exploding: Inflating: PKUNZIP file has bad table Invalid Shrunk file Invalid filename: No update needed. More -( )- Space for next screen, Enter for next line, Esc to skip file End of File - Press as N r, I've just seen one these creature things that your young friend saw in the Oxygen Room. DOCTOR: Oh, where? HARRIS: In Mr Robson's cabin. It might have attacked him. He was in a wild state when I went in and just run out. He hasn't been seen since. DOCTOR: Oh dear. (PRICE turns from the communicator.) PRICE: Mr Harris, sir. HARRIS: Yes? PRICE: The Matron says she's sorry, she hasn't brought your wife in yet. But she's sending someone over now. (This news causes the DOCTOR to rush up to the group in alarm.) DOCTOR: What! HARRIS: What is it, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well we've just come from your quarters, your wife wasn't there! JAMIE: The place was covered with seaweed... HARRIS: (to the DOCTOR) Is this right? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I'm afraid it is. HARRIS: Then where is she? Where is she? I must go and find her. VAN LUTYENS: Wait! Well where do you think she is? Do you think it has anything to do with this seaweed stuff? DOCTOR: (with a puzzled, but mostly worried look.) I don't know. I simply don't know. _________________________________________________________________ 14. BEACH (MAGGIE HARRIS is staring out to sea. She becomes aware that she is no longer alone anymore. Expecting the new arrival, she turns her head to talk over her shoulder.) MAGGIE: (soft and controlled) There is little time. You know what you must do? (The new arrival is ROBSON.) ROBSON: Yes MAGGIE: You will obey? (ROBSON nods... Then, like an unseen signal has been given, MAGGIE, unblinking and with icy calm, starts to move down towards the sea. ROBSON watches her march straight into the foam-covered sea until her head disappears under the waves... All the while the unmistakable sound of the heartbeat throbs on...) _________________________________________________________________ Doctor Who PATRICK TROUGHTON Jamie FRAZER HINES Victoria DEBORAH WATLING Robson VICTOR MADDERN Harris ROY SPENCER Price GRAHAM LEAMAN Maggie Harris JANE MURPHY Curney JOHN GAVIN Chief Engineer HUBERT REES Van Lutyens JOHN ABINERI Baxter RICHARD MAYES Quill BILL BURRIDGE Oak JOHN GILL Title Music by RON GRAINER and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Story Editor DERRICK SHERWIN Designer PETER KINDRED Producer PETER BRYANT Director HUGH DAVID BBCtv 1968 Transcribed by LEE HORTON CHRIS MOORE ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Doc's Place, Clw Fla. telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org (1:3603/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3E00036Date: 03/07/98 From: ARTIMUS BROWN Time: 01:41am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Fury From the Deep pt4 ************************************* * FURY FROM THE DEEP * * EPISODE FOUR * * by VICTOR PEMBERTON * * first broadcast - 6 June 1968 * * (5:15pm - 5:40 pm) * ************************************* 1. BEACH (MAGGIE HARRIS and ROBSON stand at the waters edge) MAGGIE: Very little time. You know what you must do. ROBSON: Yes. MAGGIE: You will obey. (ROBSON looks on as MAGGIE walks towards the sea, staring at MAGGIE's slowly receding figure as she becomes submerged by the waves.) _____ 2. CONTROL ROOM (PRICE, VAN LUTYENS and the DOCTOR are at the communications dome trying to contact any of the rigs out at sea.) PRICE: Rig D. Rig D. Control calling. Rig D, come in please. Rig D. Rig D. Control calling, come in please. (To VAN LUTYENS) I'm sorry sir, I can't reach them. VAN LUTYENS: Try Rig A again. PRICE: Rig A. Control calling Rig A.............. (To VAN LUTYENS) It's no good sir. That's 3 rigs not answering now sir. VAN LUTYENS: The men on the remaining rigs won't last under this suspense much longer. Try the guard post again and see if there's any sign of Mr. Harris............3 Rigs now. What could have happened to them? DOCTOR: Well, can't you send someone else to investigate? VAN LUTYENS: No......I don't have the authority here. I'm just their technical adviser. Mr. HARRIS is in charge. When he comes back he might properly authorise the company helicopter for at least to take a look. DOCTOR: We can do nothing. VAN LUTYENS: Nothing. Wait. Wait. Nothing. _____ 3. IMPELLER AREA (The CHIEF Engineer is inspecting the impeller shaft with his repair crew. Their work is interrupted when the familiar thumping heart beat is once again heard coming from the pipes). CHIEF: It's started again. _____ 4. CABIN (JAMIE has fallen asleep on the top bunk. VICTORIA paces the room decidedly worried) VICTORIA: Jamie.... Jamie.....Jamie....You asleep? JAMIE: No. I'm just resting my eyes. VICTORIA: I don't know how you can with all this trouble going on. JAMIE: Oh don't worry. The Doctor will work something out. He always does. VICTORIA: Yes. What then? JAMIE: Oh what do you mean "what then"? VICTORIA: What do we do next? JAMIE: Oh Victoria, you know better than to ask a question like that. We never know where we're going to land one place to the next. It's half the fun isn't it? VICTORIA: Is it? JAMIE: Victoria, what's the matter? You've been acting very oddly ever since we got here. VICTORIA: Oh it's nothing. It doesn't matter. JAMIE: Look if you're worried, the Doctor.... VICTORIA: Jamie, I said it was nothing. Just go back to sleep. JAMIE: Oh I wouldn't worry about that old bit of sea weed. The Doctor will work something out. VICTORIA: Will he? There's so many questions. The weed grows. Feeds off natural gas. How fast does it grow? What happens to those who...who touch it. Oh Jamie. Jamie I'm frightened. (The door to the cabin enters and VICTORIA gasps startled by the DOCTOR's sudden entrance) DOCTOR: Oh I'm sorry Victoria. Did I startle you? VICTORIA: Yes. Doctor... DOCTOR: Where's Jamie? VICTORIA: Up there. He's asleep. Nothing can wake him except a bomb dropping. DOCTOR: Oh good. VICTORIA: Doctor what's happening? DOCTOR: Well I'm not sure, Victoria. I'm not sure. It's so peaceful out there isn't it? VICTORIA: Heard that noise again? DOCTOR: Yes. VICTORIA: Well what are they doing about it? DOCTOR: Well we'll have to wait. VICTORIA: Wait? But what for? For one of those awful creatures to come and attack us all? DOCTOR: Now Victoria, it's not as bad as all that you know. VICTORIA: Isn't it? Even you don't know really how bad is it do you? DOCTOR: Well no. Not exactly. VICTORIA: Every time we go anywhere something awful happens. Daleks. Cybermen. DOCTOR: Yeti. VICTORIA: Yes, the Yeti. Why can't we go anywhere pleasant? Where there's no fighting. Just peace and happiness. _____ 5. BEACH (HARRIS spots a family figure at the edge of the shore. Running towards it he finds it's ROBSON and begins calling out to him). HARRIS: Mr. Robson. Mr. Robson. What are you doing down here? Have you seen my wife at all? ROBSON: Your wife? HARRIS: I've been searching for her. ROBSON: You'll find her Mr. Harris. Very soon. HARRIS: Then you haven't seen her. (ROBSON suddenly walks off along the beach - in a trance.) HARRIS: ROBSON! (ROBSON continues walking ignoring HARRIS all together.) _____ 6. IMPELLER AREA (The CHIEF, DOCTOR and JAMIE watch as VAN LUTYENS prepares himself to venture down into the impeller shaft.) DOCTOR: If you don't mind me saying so Mr. Van Lutyens, I think this is a very bad idea of yours. You don't know what you're up against. JAMIE: Aye, you wouldn't catch me down there. CHIEF: Why don't we wait till Mr. Harris comes back sir? VAN LUTYENS: The only way to find out whether this weed stuff of yours is blocking the base of the impeller is to go down and have a look. CHIEF: Mr. Van Lutyens, I have no authority to send my men down there.... VAN LUTYENS: I realize that. That's why I'm going down. CHIEF: By yourself? VAN LUTYENS: Oh yes. CHIEF: I wouldn't go down.....Well I hope you know what you're doing sir. VAN LUTYENS: I think so. DOCTOR: I.....I wish you wouldn't do this Mr. Van Lutyens. VAN LUTYENS: I can't sit about waiting any longer. I have no position of authority here. But I do have the run of the company installations. And if I can do nothing else I....I can at least inspect the base of the impeller shaft. (The group make their way over to the lift platform. OAK and QUILL are standing at the ready by the lift controls. VAN LUTYENS steps into the life chamber.) DOCTOR: Good Luck. JAMIE: Good luck. You'll need it. CHIEF: All right lower him down. (OAK operates the controls and the lift descends.) _____ 7. BASE OF IMPELLER SHAFT (VAN LUTYENS flashes his torch about as the lift chamber jolts to a stop at the bottom. He steps out and begins a thorough search. Finding a near by inspection hatch he opens it. But as he is about to take a closer look, weed and foam swarm towards him from the far end of the shaft.) VAN LUTYENS: Help me. Let me out. (VAN LUTYENS' screams are cut short as he is engulfed by the weed and foam.) _____ 8. IMPELLER LIFT AREA (Van Lutyens' screams are heard in the impeller area) CHIEF: Get him up! (OAK operates the lift controls and the lift starts it's ascent to the surface) VICTORIA : What is it? What's happened? JAMIE : Van Lutyens is down there. VICTORIA: What's happened to him? DOCTOR: Oh we don't know Victoria.... (the CHIEF engineer moves over to the lift shaft and returns stunned...) What happened? What did you see? CHIEF: He's not in the shaft. He may still be down there. Let's find Mr. Harris. (He leaves) DOCTOR: We can't just leave him down there. JAMIE: Oh what are we going to do? DOCTOR: We've got to go after him. VICTORIA: (distressed at the thought) Oh Doctor no. JAMIE: Oh no we're not. DOCTOR: Jamie, you wouldn't want me to go down there all on my own now would you? JAMIE: Well no. VICTORIA: Oh Doctor you can't, you don't know what's down there. _____ 9. COMMUNICATIONS AREA PRICE: Ms Megan Jones..... just.... just leaving reception now....Right. Thank you. (HARRIS walks in after an unsuccessful search for his wife) Oh Mr. Harris. (HARRIS doesn't hear him at first, still preoccupied with his missing wife) Mr. Harris, we've been looking for you everywhere. HARRIS: What is it Price? PRICE: Are you all right sir? HARRIS: Yes.... Just tired. Do you have any news of my wife? PRICE: No. I'm afraid not sir. You didn't find her? (HARRIS shakes his head and turns away) Oh Mr. Harris... HARRIS: Yes? PRICE: The director, Megan Jones is leaving reception on her way here now sir. HARRIS: I see. Thank you Price. Where's Van Lutyens? PRICE: In the Impeller Area I think sir. HARRIS: All right. (HARRIS moves off heading to the impeller area). _____ 10. IMPELLER LIFT AREA (The DOCTOR and JAMIE have descended down in the lift. HARRIS walks in and is updated by VICTORIA what has happened.) HARRIS: This is terrible. You mean to say that they both went down that shaft? VICTORIA: I couldn't stop them. They went looking for Mr. Van... HARRIS: What? What has happened to him? (CHIEF enters the impeller area) CHIEF: Mr. Harris. Thank goodness you're back. Mr. Van Lutyens went down inside the impeller shaft to find.... to find what is blocking the pipe line. HARRIS: Yes? CHIEF: He didn't come back. Now the Doctor and the boy has gone down there.... HARRIS: They've done what? (He moves over to where OAK is at the lift controls) Get them up at once. Stop the lift. OAK: I'm sorry sir. it's too late. _______ 11. BASE OF IMPELLER SHAFT JAMIE: Creepy sort of place isn't it? DOCTOR: Jamie, that hole goes straight down to the ???????? down below. (JAMIE stumbles over something on the floor. He bends down and picks the object up) JAMIE: Hey, isn't that Van Lutyens' torch? DOCTOR: Well it must be. JAMIE: But where is he? DOCTOR: Shine that down here... (JAMIE starts tapping the torch to get it to work) Give that to me. (An irritated JAMIE hands over the torch) JAMIE: Come on Doctor. Let's get out of here. I feel as if something evil is lurking down here. _____ 12. CORRIDOR (MEGAN JONES and her aide PERKINS is moving towards the communications area.) PERKINS: It all seems quiet enough Ms Jones. JONES: Of course it is. Robson's an efficient man. Why do you think I gave him control of the compound? He knows the job backwards. PERKINS: Then why the sudden panic? JONES: I don't know. Harris was rather vague. PERKINS: Vague? Harris said he was taking over from Robson. I wouldn't call that vague. JONES: You've not met Robson have you Perkins? PERKINS: No. But... JONES: When you do, you'll realize that he's not the sort of man one pushes around. PERKINS: Then what's it all about? JONES: Just an internal squabble I'd say. Harris is a bright man. I sent him thinking he might gain from Robson's technical experience. Obviously the two haven't taken off together. PERKINS: So we're pouring oil? Politics? JONES: Let's go and see shall we? _____ 13. IMPELLER SHAFT AREA (VICTORIA, HARRIS and the CHIEF are gathered around the lift shaft. OAK and QUILL stand in the background at the lift controls.) VICTORIA: (Shouting down into the shaft) JAMIE....... DOCTOR. (when no response is forth coming. she moves back to the others) Oh I do wish they'd hurry. HARRIS: Is there any way we can get them up Chief? CHIEF: Well we can't use the lift in case they want to get back in a hurry. There's the ladder inside the pipe line... (PRICE appears in the doorway to the impeller area.) PRICE: Mr Harris? HARRIS: Yes. What is it Price? PRICE: Megan Jones has arrived sir. HARRIS: Oh I see. Thank you. (PRICE disappears back to the communications area.) Chief, you'd better come with me. I'm going to need some support when I talk to Megan Jones. CHIEF: Now? VICTORIA: But what about Jamie and the Doctor? HARRIS: There's isn't a great deal we can do at the moment, I'm afraid. (He moves over to the lift controls and addresses OAK) Oak, as soon as they signal bring them up. If there's any sign of trouble come and get me. OAK: You can rely on us. HARRIS: Come on Chief. (HARRIS and the CHIEF leave. VICTORIA joins OAK and QUILL at the lift controls) VICTORIA: Will they be all right. I mean is it safe? OAK: Oh yes Miss. Don't you worry about a thing. We'll take care of everything won't we, Mr Quill? _____ 14. CONTROL CENTRE (HARRIS has just finished updating MEGAN JONES on the current situation). JONES: Creatures? Seaweed Creatures? What do you say to that Perkins? PERKINS: Oh. Well.... HARRIS: It's true. JONES: You can't be serious Mr Harris. HARRIS: These creatures have been seen in the refinery itself by.... JONES: By some half witted Doctor and a couple of teenagers. HARRIS: And by me. JONES: You've seen them? HARRIS: Yes, Ms Jones. I have seen them. JONES: Harris, I understand your wife has some sort of accident. I know it must have been a considerable shock to you and I fully understand.... HARRIS: You think I'm lying. That I've been seeing things. Believe me. There are things you don't know. JONES: I know through out the southern regions the sea rig stations are reverting to emergency supplies. What are we going to do about it? HARRIS: At present there is nothing we can do about it. One by one we're losing contact with the rigs out at sea. JONES: Then I suggest you send someone out to see what's going on. HARRIS: All right. Have I your permission to call out air defence. JONES: Certainly not. This not is a national emergency. Use the company helicopters. HARRIS: But you don't understand... JONES: Will you please do as I say? HARRIS: Price. PRICE: Yes Sir. HARRIS: Get me the helicopter hangar please. PRICE: Very good sir. JONES: Now, Mr. Harris. I think I would like to talk with Chief Robson. HARRIS: Oh I'm sorry. I think.... Well he's not very well. JONES: Not well? In what way? HARRIS: Something's happened to him. I.... That's all I can tell you. JONES: Like what? What happened? HARRIS: I ... I don't know. I just don't know. _____ 15. BASE OF IMPELLER SHAFT JAMIE: Can you see anything? DOCTOR: No it's too dark Jamie. Not a sign of Van Lutyens. JAMIE: Well no point hanging about here. DOCTOR: Wait a minute. (Foam and weed emerge further down the corridor) Come on Jamie. Let's get out of here. (The DOCTOR and JAMIE run back towards the lift shaft. The DOCTOR presses the lift recall button but nothing happens). _____ 16. IMPELLER SHAFT AREA (Up above in the lift area the lift control area is deserted. OAK, QUILL and VICTORIA are gone). _____ 17. BASE OF IMPELLER SHAFT JAMIE & DOCTOR : Get us out of here. Take the lift up!!!! _____ 18. IMPELLER SHAFT AREA (A door with "Pipe line Room" on it opens and QUILL and OAK come out. Ignoring the lift controls and in particular the flashing lift recall light that they exit the area) _____ 19. BASE OF IMPELLER SHAFT (The DOCTOR and JAMIE drag themselves up the impeller shaft ladder) _____ 20. IMPELLER SHAFT AREA (JAMIE emerges from the impeller shaft ladder and helps the DOCTOR out) JAMIE: Give me your hand. You all right? DOCTOR: Yes. I think so. JAMIE: What a climb. DOCTOR: It's the weed. It must fill the entire shaft. It's moving too quick. JAMIE: Let's get out of this place..... (He notices that the entire area is deserted) Where's Victoria? DOCTOR: I don't know. No wonder they didn't see the lift shaft signal. There's no one here. JAMIE: Victoria wouldn't desert us. DOCTOR: No. Unless she had been persuaded to Jamie. I think we'd better go and look for her. Come on. You go that way. I'll go this way. JAMIE: All right. (The DOCTOR and JAMIE head off in opposite directions) _____ 21. COMMUNICATIONS CONE JONES: Foam and weed on all of the rigs? HARRIS: According to the helicopter pilot - and no sign of life at all. JONES: It's so fantastic. What on earth are we going to do? HARRIS: Save the lives of all the men on all the other rigs. JONES: How? HARRIS: Give me permission to evacuate them. PERKINS: What? HARRIS: Then we blow everyone of the rigs to pieces, right out of the sea. PERKINS: You must be out of your mind. Miss Jones, you can't really agree to such a thing. HARRIS: Just a minute. We have to. The men's life is more important than any of those rigs. PERKINS: The minister would never agree. JONES: That will do Perkins. You ask me to throw years of hard work, skill and government money like that? (She snaps her fingers as demonstration) HARRIS: I'm asking you to destroy this evil that's in the sea. Before it's too late. Bomb the rigs. I implore you. (ROBSON at that moment runs in) ROBSON: No..... no. Never. You leave those rigs alone. They're mine. They're mine I tell you. Mine. JONES: Robson. What's the matter with you? ROBSON: Don't you see? They're getting at me. The rigs. They're mine. I built them from my own flesh and blood. They're mine. They're mine. They want to destroy everything. They think in that way they can destroy me. We won't allow. JONES: We? Who Robson? Who? ROBSON: What? My ...... I ..... Don't know..... Chief. (ROBSON stumbles and the CHIEF grabs him before he falls) JONES: Are you all right Robson? ROBSON: Yes. I'm all right. I don't know..... I don't know..... JONES: Robson.... (ROBSON staggers out of the communications cone area) HARRIS: Let him go. The strain must have affected his mind. (The DOCTOR enters the communications area having overheard HARRIS's comment) DOCTOR: Oh it's not that I can assure you. HARRIS: Doctor. JONES: And who are you? DOCTOR: Well..... HARRIS: Doctor, I've almost forgotten. What about Van Lutyens? did you.... DOCTOR: I ... I'm afraid not. HARRIS: Have you any idea what happened? DOCTOR: Yes. Jamie and I nearly joined him. The whole of the bottom of the impeller shaft is covered in weed and foam. JONES: What happened to Mr. Van Lutyens? And Mr. Robson? DOCTOR: I'm afraid that Mr. Robson is being controlled by some force that emanates from this weed. JONES: That's incredible. HARRIS: That's what we said so far about everything the Doctor's told us. Each time he's been proved right. I think it's about time we started to believe him. JONES: All right. The least we can do is listen. _____ 22. CORRIDOR (JAMIE is wandering down a corridor calling for VICTORIA) JAMIE: VICTORIA........ VICTORIA...... It's me. Jamie. Where are you?? VICTORIA. _____ 23. COMMUNICATIONS CONE JONES: You think this seaweed or what ever it is, is a living organism capable of exercising telepathic control? DOCTOR: Yes. JONES: But seaweed's vegetable matter. Everyone knows that. DOCTOR: This is a struggle for power Ms Jones. Matter over mind. I'm convinced all these people - Mrs Harris, Chief Robson, Mr. Van Lutyens, have all been overcome in this struggle and goodness knows how many more people. HARRIS: Where does it get the intelligence from Doctor? DOCTOR: The human brain. It's parasitic. HARRIS: You mean... The creature has taken over human beings. DOCTOR: I don't know but they've certainly become part of the colony. PRICE: Mr. Harris. Control rig... (BAXTER appears on the monitor) HARRIS: Control. Yes, Baxter what is it? BAXTER: Mr. Harris, for pity's sake they're all around us. HARRIS: All right. What's happening. BAXTER: These things. They're everywhere.......... The whole ........... every living place. HARRIS: Baxter. Baxter. Can you hear .... BAXTER: Get us out of here. Somebody get us out of here..... (The screen goes blank) PRICE: Feed HQ calling Control rig. Come in please. Come in please. _____ 24. IMPELLER AREA (JAMIE makes his way down a corridor) JAMIE: VICTORIA........... VICTORIA.............. VICTORIA. (JAMIE returns to the impeller area) Back to square one. She must be somewhere. (He notices the pipeline room door ajar. He swings the door open and sees the prone form of VICTORIA) Victoria! If anything happened to you, I'd never forgive myself. VICTORIA: Oh Jamie. I didn't know you cared. JAMIE: Victoria Waterfield. You tricked me. That's not fair. VICTORIA: I'm not. I was unconscious. JAMIE: Yeah. What happened? VICTORIA: Those 2 engineers... they must have.... JAMIE: What engineers? VICTORIA: You know the .... and the little one.. JAMIE: You mean the 2 that were.... with the.... VICTORIA: Yes. That's right. I don't remember. I must have passed out. JAMIE: You know the Doctor and me we were nearly.... Oh never mind about that. VICTORIA: Oh Jamie, why are we always getting into trouble like this. It's been every where we go. JAMIE: How do you mean? VICTORIA: I don't know. I'm just fed up. I'm tired of one crisis on top of another. I just want some piece and quiet. JAMIE: Oh Victoria. Are you not happy with the Doctor and myself? VICTORIA: Oh yes. Yes I am. But I just.... JAMIE: What's the matter..... (VICTORIA doesn't respond and is listening to a back ground thumping sound) what's the matter? VICTORIA: Listen Jamie. JAMIE: What is it? VICTORIA: Can't you hear it? JAMIE: Yes but where's it coming from? (He looks around and notices the transparent section of the pipe filled with seaweed and foam) JAMIE: Victoria look! _____ 25. COMMUNICATIONS CONE DOCTOR: With the Control rig gone, we can draw only once conclusion. The weed is trying to take over all the rigs and form one vast colony. JONES: With what objective? DOCTOR: The saturation of the British Isles and perhaps in time the entire planet. PERKINS: Is such a thing possible? DOCTOR: Oh yes. Unless we can find the nerve centre and destroy it. JONES: But how can we possibly do that? It could be anywhere out there in the north sea. DOCTOR: Yes. That is the difficulty. (JAMIE and VICTORIA run in) JAMIE: Doctor. DOCTOR: What is it? JAMIE: The pipe line. Quick. Come on. VICTORIA: Hurry. (They all follow JAMIE and VICTORIA back to the impeller pipeline room) _____ 26. IMPELLER PIPE LINE ROOM DOCTOR: What's happening? JAMIE: It's here. (He points up at the transparent pipe) JONES: What in heaven's name is that? DOCTOR: The advance guard. JONES: I don't understand... what's happening? DOCTOR: The first part of the invasion.... (The DOCTOR steps a little closer to the pipe line) VICTORIA: Doctor don't go near. DOCTOR: It's begun.... The battle of the giants. (Weed and foam throb in the transparent pipe. VICTORIA screams as the weed and foam try to push it's way out.....) _____ Doctor Who PATRICK TROUGHTON Jamie FRAZER HINES Victoria DEBORAH WATLING Robson VICTOR MADDERN Harris ROY SPENCER Price GRAHAM LEAMAN Baxter RICHARD MAYES Chief HUBERT REES Van Lutyens JOHN ABINERI Quill BILL BURRIDGE Oak JOHN GILL Megan Jones MARGARET JOHN H9 uFfKIQߒ("3?/*oEgv 0 ~yVܞ ɮzL13`C֝_P Yg /t֐jcy1Yt9%Œڳ: U m)eZ*(B VڦVм>|\t>IӪQnsXhX: 3cp 86J5Z㊎A z]o`]J{i PNEY$> KS~0X>v\Q;5qѭ,. & @ @ (   ,  _|_ _b (W ) (E ) PRN LPT1 .ZIP COM1 Searching ZIP: file: already exists. Overwrite (y/n/a/r)? Unknown compression type: inconsistent local header for file: file fails CRC check OK has errors! Testing: Extracting: UnShrinking: Expanding: Exploding: Inflating: PKUNZIP file has bad table Invalid Shrunk file Invalid filename: No update needed. More -( )- Space for next screen, Enter for next line, Esc to skip file End of File - Press aa N8'OCTOR: Yes. I think so. JAMIE: What a climb. DOCTOR: It' --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3F00000Date: 03/10/98 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 04:25pm \/To: JOE SIEGLER (Read 0 times) Subj: Animated DW Hello Joe, 01 Mar 98 23:21, Joe Siegler wrote to Artimus Brown: | AB>> The Tenth Planet 4 has been discovered in Poland! | SQ>> Wanna bet this makes its way out to the Internet? JS> I've seen "Recovered in Poland" rumours on the Internet in the last JS> couple of weeks. Don't know if it's related to this, tho. And here comes the guy with the Adric rumours. I'll -die- if someone comes in here to mention that TP4 has been located in Poland. --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Beta2+ * Origin: Il Vaticano (1:124/9005.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3F00001Date: 03/10/98 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 05:47pm \/To: CHARLES DANIELS (Read 0 times) Subj: Animated DW Hello Charles. Haven't seen you here in a while...welcome back. You're about the third "old-timer" to crawl out of the woodwork lately. :) 07 Mar 98 06:35, Charles Daniels wrote to Steve Quarrella: >> IF the BBC doesn't prostitute the show AND they get not only high- >> quality animation but also high-quality writing and production, I'm >> all for an animated Doctor Who if it appears that there won't be any >> future live action stories. CD> Ohh god, you guys aren't talking about the "Area 9"/"Karen McCoy" CD> "animated series" are you? I don't even know what that is! No, we're talking about a not-even-proposed animated Doctor Who series, and were comparing it with the (IMHO) failure of its Star Trek predecessor. --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Beta2+ * Origin: Il Vaticano (1:124/9005.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3F00002Date: 03/10/98 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 05:48pm \/To: CHARLES DANIELS (Read 0 times) Subj: Animated DW Hello Charles. 07 Mar 98 06:40, Charles Daniels wrote to Steve Quarrella: CD> I heard one last week about Hong Kong..obvious a mistake over CD> Tomb of the Cybermen. I've seen that a few times this past week m'self. Any idea as to whether they made one last ditch effort to recover -anything- before Hong Kong went back into China's hands? Although the health and general welfare of Hong Kong's inhabitants would be of a greater concern, it would kill me to think that the Chinese came in and junked something ("Marco Polo? What the hell is this? Pitch it."). [Trying to remember where it was that "The Reign of Terror" was held in its entirety, but was destroyed during some kind of internal squabbling.] --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Beta2+ * Origin: Il Vaticano (1:124/9005.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: F3F00003Date: 03/10/98 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 04:25pm \/To: JOE SIEGLER (Read 0 times) Subj: Better Change This Subj. Hello Joe, 02 Mar 98 20:13, Joe Siegler wrote to Steve Quarrella: JS> Do you remember the show he rested Dr. Who to fund? Star Cops? I JS> have all of them on tape. Rather dreadful, as I remember. I have never actually seen Star Cops, although I know there was quite a bit of conversation about it back when *Romana was moderating the echo. It just never seemed to make it to PBS wherever I was living at the time. JS> I liked their plan for Season 27, which was to have Ace enroll in the JS> Timelord Academy. That would have been interesting. Details on that? JS> |I need to also dig up the originally-scripted ending to "Survival." JS> You'r |familiar with that one, aren't JS> No, I'm not. Artimus just posted something that was a variant of what I have, in which the Doctor saved himself and the Master just as the planet went kablooey. The Master, never a dumb fellow, figured out that the Doctor wasn't really -just- a Timelord. The Doctor really didn't want to have that conversation, and the Master takes off before the Doctor can attempt to talk reason to him. JS> ... It's a cat being hit with a banjo or it's country music. :-) --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Beta2+ * Origin: Il Vaticano (1:124/9005.13)